Things were going smoothly.
I wasn’t struggling.
I felt confident.
And that’s when I slipped.
People say it was complacency.
But it didn’t feel like arrogance.
Why does this happen
exactly when things seem under control?
Ossan’s answer:
Because control has a cost.
When you first learn something,
attention is expensive but precise.
As you get better,
attention becomes cheaper.
That’s not a failure.
That’s efficiency.
The problem isn’t that attention drops.
It’s that nothing tells you where the floor is.
So you keep lowering effort
until something breaks.
Calling that “oil断”
sounds like a moral issue.
It’s not.
It’s a calibration problem.
And noticing that difference
changes how you recover.
→ Q&A 080 — Why does complacency show up right when things are going well? (Members)